Monday, 30 May 2011

Alaska Airlines first major in US with iPad flight manuals

Alaska Airlines on Friday had the distinction of being the first large US carrier to use iPads as flight manuals on all flights and routes. All pilots will be receiving the Apple tablet loaded with the GoodReader app and PDF copies of all the aircraft manuals, reference charts, and other content they would need for their flights. Moving to the iPad not only saves a large amount of weight, dropping from 25 pounds to 1.5 pounds, but has active links between documents and color that normally wouldn't reach the printed copies....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=7feffed96da876983b7af41cf540a426

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